Defendant Rosenberg's views well fitted him for this
task as one of the chief executioners of the conspirators' plans in the
Soviet Union. His views were plainly expressed in a speech delivered on
20 June 1940 and are set forth in Document Number 1058-PS, now Exhibit
Number USA-147. I refer Your Honors to the first three sentences of the
English text. The German text appears on Page 8, last five lines and
continuing through to line 2 of Page 9. In the speech Defendant
Rosenberg stated, and I quote:

"The job of feeding the German people
stands, this year, without a doubt, at the top of the list of
Germany's claims on the East; and here the southern territories and
the northern Caucasus will have to serve as a balance for the feeding
of the German people. We see absolutely no reason for any obligation
on our part to feed also the Russian people with the products of that
surplus territory. We know that this is a harsh necessity, bare of any
feelings."

I next offer in
evidence Document Number EC-347, which is Exhibit Number USA-320. This
document was likewise found among the captured files of the OKW. It
contains a set of directives issued by Defendant Rosenberg in his
capacity as Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories.

I quote from the first two full paragraphs of Page 1 of this exhibit.
The German text is at Page 39, Paragraphs 4 and 5. In these directives
Defendant Rosenberg stated, and I quote:

"The principal task of the civilian
administration in the Occupied Eastern Territories is to represent the
interests of the Reich. This basic principle is to be given precedence
in all measures and considerations. Therefore, the occupied
territories, in the future, may be permitted to have a life of their
own in a form not as yet to be determined. However, they remain parts
of the Greater German living space and are always to be governed
according to this guiding principle.

"The regulations of the Hague Convention on land warfare, which
concern the administration of a country occupied by a foreign
belligerent power, are not applicable, since the U.S.S.R. is to be
considered dissolved and, therefore, the Reich has the obligation of
exercising all governmental and other sovereign functions in the
interests of the country's inhabitants. Therefore, any measures are
permitted which the German administration deems necessary and suitable
for the execution of this comprehensive task."